MXR Blue Box clone

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Custom build of a MXR Blue Box clone. This early 1970s octave fuzz pedal is based on some pretty basic engineering causing it's pitch tracking circuitry to glitch at higher frequencies and jump wildly between octaves. Lots of unpredictable fun. Octave pedals repeat the incoming guitar signal an octave above or below. Hendrix loved them and Jack White wouldn't leave home without one.

The motif on the copper-etched fascia is from some graffiti found on the side of a truck in San Diego, California.

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Sola Sound Tone Bender clone

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Custom build of a Sola Sound Tone Bender clone using original germanium transistors for authentic vintage filth. This early British fuzz pedal was taken up by many mid-sixties players including that world-changing triumvirate of Englishmen, Clapton, Beck and Page. Check back soon for audio demos!